Using Analysis of Governance to Unpack Community-Based Conservation: A Case Study from Tanzania.

摘要: Community-based conservation policies and programs are often hollow with little real devolution. But to pass a judgment of community-based or not on such initiatives obscures what is actually suite attributes. In this paper, we analyze governance around specific case nominally conservation—Ikona Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Tanzania—using two complementary sets criteria. The first relates “powers”: planning powers, regulatory spending revenue-generating the power enter into agreements. second set criteria derive from understanding as social functions: coordination, shaping power, setting direction, building community. analysis helps detail ways which Tanzanian state through policy regulations has constrained potential for Ikona WMA empower communities community actors. Although it some features conservation, input how functions would be carried out was start now largely hands. powers that have any significant flavor—spending powers—relate WMA’s tourism activities, but even here picture equivocal at best. unpacking done, however, reveals empowerment processes associated creating recognizing indigenous community-conserved areas something can pursued multiple channels, might more strategic than others.